Atlanta women's club cook book

The Atlanta Woman's Pioneer Society is an organization of women residing in Atlanta since the city was a little place called Terminus, in 1847, later Marthasville, (for Miss Martha Lumpkin), and later Atlanta, named by Joseph Thompson, a civil engineer, and Colonel Richard Peters. The name is a coined one, and was probably suggested by the Atlantic ocean, Atlanta being in a way the feminine for Atlantic. In February, 1909, Mrs. Joseph H. Morgan called together the women who were residents of Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, from 1847 to 1870. Fifty prominent women met and organized into the "Atlanta Woman's Pioneer Society." There are about 90 members. The organization has for its purpose the renewing and perpetuation of early friendships, and the preservation of historical facts and reminiscences of early Atlanta. Atlanta Woman's Pioneer Society was the first to establish a permanent Memorial Service for its members and this is an annual event with the organization. It is held the first Wednesday in April. An annual picnic is a feature of the social life of the society. The picnics assemble both pioneer men and women. Mrs. Joseph H. Morgan is the founder of the society and its president for life. The Members are home makers, mothers and wives after the old fashion. They are not politicians, and though the members belong to modern organizations for women and take part in church, civic and social life, as individuals, they do no work PIONEER CHAPTER 207 in the Pioneer Society but meet and talk over old times when potatoes were not bought by the pound, or eggs sold by the twos and threes. They have seen their tables literally groan under the weight of southern dishes, and the following recipes have been contributed by several of the members. Lollie Belle Wylie. Historian for Life. IN LOVING APPRECIATION. The Home Economics Department wishes to acknowledge its indebtedness to Mrs. John McDougald of Atlanta and Mrs. Lamar Rucker of Athens, daughters of Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, for the recipes which head the Pioneer Chapter. Mrs. Black was known to all the Southland as a Pioneer in thought and in deed. President, as she was, of the Georgia State Federation of Women's Clubs, she utilized to the utmost the opportunity presented for making acquaintance with all of the women in the state, and particularly the women in the remote farming districts, To them she carried the message of service to Georgia and to the world — she taught them and their husbands the new idea of diversified farming. She was among the first in Georgia to see the handwriting on the wall which doomed the "one-crop" idea, that of cotton,- and through her precepts and powerful example, she taught them that Georgia could raise her own food stuffs. Owner of large plantations herself and familiar with every detail in their management, a splendid housewife and mother, she taught not only by precept but through experience. The recipes given below have been shared by Mrs. Black with many Georgia housewives, and we hope through the Cook Book, will help many more. — (The Editors.) GRAPE NUT JAM. 3 pts. grape pulp. 1 lb. nuts in shell. 3 lbs. sugar. 1 lb. seedless raisins.